On Jul 9, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Jerry Van Baren wrote: > Kumar Gala wrote: >> If the path we are trying to print doesn't exist see if it matches an >> aliases. We don't do anything fancy at this point, but just strip >> the >> leading '/' if it exists and see if we have an exact match to an >> alias. >> In the future we could try and prefix matching so the alias could >> be used >> as a shorter path reference. >> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cool and useful too. Out of curiousity, does "real" Open Firmware > do this sort of thing with aliases?
I'm pretty sure it the Apple OF implementation does. However I dont remember to what extent it does from my playing around with OF on Apple HW. > One reservation I have (which may disappear if the answer to the > previous question is "yes"), it automatically and silently > dereferences the /aliases/X node when asked to display /X or X (but > only if /X doesn't exist in the dtb). This is not an obvious > behavior since X isn't real. we could print out something about using an alias so the user knows that its happening. > Should we have a different display syntax to force the dereference > of an alias X? Assuming "*" is a good choice, this would change the > behavior > fdt print *ethernet0 > to dereference /aliases/ethernet0 and print out > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.../enet0 (or whatever). Lets says I have an alias for 'soc' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I want to be able to in the future do print /soc/enet0 and have that work. Introducing some new syntax would make that difficult and more ugly. - k ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ U-Boot-Users mailing list U-Boot-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/u-boot-users
